One EASY TRICK to Quickly Change Object Origins in Blender! (Quick Pivot Point Change)

>> What's up, guys?

Justin here with BCGessentials.com back
for another Blender quick tip for you.

So in today's video, we're going
to talk about a really fast way

to change your object origin inside of Blender.

So let's go ahead and just jump into it.

So one of the things that can get a little
bit frustrating inside of Blender is

when you add a mesh, like a cube, like this one.

It initially comes in with an object origin,

which is this little orange point
right in the middle of your object.

And so the object origin is basically the
point around which your operations happen.

So if I were to scale this box, right,
it scales based on the central point.

So if I was to rotate it, it rotates
based on the central point as well.

A lot of the time, especially when we're
doing like architectural style applications,

we don't necessarily want to do that.

What we want to do is we want to have this
in a corner because usually what we're going

to do is we're going to align
an object based on a corner,

and then if we do any rotations,
we'll do it based on that.

So this is something that's probably
more for like precision style modeling.

Well in the past, what we've done is
we've done some things with the 3D cursor

and setting your 3D cursor, and then
setting your pivot point and all of that,

which works fine, but it can
be a little bit annoying to do.

And so what I found out earlier today is there's
also an option under this little options drop

down up here that allows us to
transform your object origin.

And so what that does is, as soon as you check
this box -- so you click this little drop down,

and then you set object origin, like this.

So now if I was to tap G in order to move
something, notice how now what's moving

around is not the object itself
but rather the object origin.

And so what that means is
that means that I can rotate

and I can also move the object
origin anywhere in the 3D space.

So let's say I was to place that on this
point, and then I was to turn that back off,

now if I was to scale this object, it's
going to scale based on that base point,

which I've set on the wall over here.

And so what that means is that means that
I can now move that origin really easily

so I don't have to mess around
at the 3D cursor or anything

like that in order to set this point.

This really gets powerful if you
turn on your object snapping.

So we've talked a lot about
snapping lately, again,

because it's so important
for precision, style moving.

But if you turn on your object snapping,
and you set your snapping to vertex -

so if I were to turn this on, then move this,

you can use this to snap your object
origin to any vertex that you want.

And you can use the other
snapping on here as well,

but you can basically use
this to precisely move that.

And so once you're done with that, you can
go back into your options, turn that off,

and now you can scale and rotate based
on that corner point that you set.

So instead of having to go in and mess around
with a 3D cursor, you can now use this instead.

And so one place this might be
valuable is if you had two walls

like these and you wanted to align them.

So for example -- let's say
that I was to move this over.

We have object snapping turned on so I can move
this so that it aligns with this corner point.

But let's say I wanted to set this so
that it's aligned with this corner point,

and now I wanted to rotate it so
that it's perpendicular to this wall.

You can see how I can't do that right
now because it moves the object.

Right. So it's moving the object based on
the central point at the center of mass.

Well what we want to do is we want
to go up into the options up here,

adjust the origin, and move
it down to this corner.

Once we move it down to this corner,
then if we turn that back off,

we can rotate this by tapping the R key.

Z key -- Notice how now I can
rotate this around that corner point

like this without it moving around.

So this can be really valuable, again,
for like CAD-style applications.

Notice how also we can use this to scale.

And we're going to set our
snapping so it affects our scale.

But now we can use this to scale based on that
corner point, and you can set your snapping

to scale something so that it
aligns with this corner right here.

So being able to quickly set this point to the
corner using this tool is extremely valuable

if you're doing this kind of modeling.

So that's [inaudible] in this video.

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